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Washing new fabrics with old vs new machines |
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Post# 271471 , Reply# 1   3/22/2008 at 22:09 (5,850 days old) by rickr (.)   |   | |
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I only have vintage machines, however I do not own any 1950's or 1960's, or 1970's clothes. My modern clothes look and wear just fine, and they are washed over and over in vintage top loaders. In fact, any time I puchase new clothes, I ALWAYS wash the garment prior to wearing it. With all due respect, your inlaws point of view is just plain incorrect. |
Post# 271472 , Reply# 2   3/22/2008 at 22:16 (5,850 days old) by maytagbear (N.E. Ohio)   |   | |
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are water temperature-washing and rinsing, water volume, agitation time, and agitation/spin speed. Most higher end machines from 1955 onward allowed the user to adjust all four. Lawence/Maytagbear |
Post# 271557 , Reply# 4   3/23/2008 at 08:57 (5,850 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)   |   | |
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Post# 271563 , Reply# 5   3/23/2008 at 09:15 (5,850 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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Your questions are valid. My partner and I just last month were able to get a 1958/9 (could be either year, some parts are newer) Multimatic up and running. We used it extensively to wash both cottons/linens, silks and micro-fiber towels and coats. Neither of us voluntarily would ever wear synthetics, but I did wash some synthetic fleece vests. All of the clothes washed came out clean and undamaged. Including the silks. None of the "modern" fabrics of the last 100 years or so require any more delicate handling than do the 19th century and early twentieth century synthetics. Rather the opposite - micro-fibre is much easier to wash and clean than the polyester and nylon horrors of the 50's and 60's. Since you are considering one of the last of thumpers, it will have the "cool-down" cycle which some synthetics, under some circumstances, occasionally may benefit from. Your in-laws have succumbed to the marketing in-duh-vi-duals. As for the FLs not needing detergent the first few wash loads, nope, not true. They frequently rinse better and spin faster than the trash being sold today as TLs, but then, a few good rocks and a fast moving stream would, too. The addition of a good water softener and moderate dosing the first few washloads might be necessary if the clothes had previously been washed in too much detergent and not adequately rinsed. I suppose, for modern machines, Duets are ok. But who, in their right minds, would buy a Duet when they could have a thumper? That is like asking if you want a used up and overplayed rental VHS cassette of your favorite movie or would rather watch it in a THx certified theatre in 70mm 3D... I tried to be gentle, honest I did. My experience with in-laws was that they either scheme to make your life hell and win their child back or they genuinely like you. Nothing in between. Make you own decision, sounds like these people will criticize whichever choice you make. Or don't make. |
Post# 271776 , Reply# 8   3/23/2008 at 22:51 (5,849 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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...And I found out what it was when I went from a 1990's Whirly DD pair to a '70s vintage pair of centre-dial 'Tags. The Maytags get clothes much cleaner, on less detergent. Evidently, back in the day, they weren't afraid to agitate. I'm far happier with my "old" machines than I was with "modern" ones. |